Triple

T15622951
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American National Biography E375605 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Mark C. Carnes
Mark C. Carnes is an American historian and professor known for his work on U.S. history and for developing innovative role-immersion pedagogy in higher education.
 E1306857 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Mark C. Carnes | Statement: [American National Biography, editor, Mark C. Carnes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark C. Carnes
Context triple: [American National Biography, editor, Mark C. Carnes]
  • A. Craig A. Stough
    Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
  • B. Michael W. Burns
    Michael W. Burns is an actor known for his role in the Western television miniseries "Broken Trail."
  • C. Mark P. McCahill
    Mark P. McCahill is an American computer scientist best known for pioneering early internet technologies, including creating the Gopher protocol for distributed document search and retrieval.
  • D. Timothy J. Sexton
    Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
  • E. Michael A. Carroll
    Michael A. Carroll was a prominent Indianapolis civic leader and philanthropist whose contributions to the community led to a major stadium being named in his honor.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Mark C. Carnes
Triple: [American National Biography, editor, Mark C. Carnes]
Generated description
Mark C. Carnes is an American historian and professor known for his work on U.S. history and for developing innovative role-immersion pedagogy in higher education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark C. Carnes
Target entity description: Mark C. Carnes is an American historian and professor known for his work on U.S. history and for developing innovative role-immersion pedagogy in higher education.
  • A. Craig A. Stough
    Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
  • B. Michael W. Burns
    Michael W. Burns is an actor known for his role in the Western television miniseries "Broken Trail."
  • C. Mark P. McCahill
    Mark P. McCahill is an American computer scientist best known for pioneering early internet technologies, including creating the Gopher protocol for distributed document search and retrieval.
  • D. Timothy J. Sexton
    Timothy J. Sexton is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the critically acclaimed dystopian film "Children of Men."
  • E. Michael A. Carroll
    Michael A. Carroll was a prominent Indianapolis civic leader and philanthropist whose contributions to the community led to a major stadium being named in his honor.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d85ccf2794819096cda4cbcb02d478 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e9cfd94819091459aa17a002eaf completed April 16, 2026, 2:51 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a037c1f2ac48190be5990748207819a completed May 12, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a037e34ca8c81909bdaa64d3777ffb7 completed May 12, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a037ea9aa208190b82e32b47d04a417 completed May 12, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:14 a.m.